It was so good last time, we're doing it again! The next #FuturePub in London on January the 27th is joining forces with Scholarly Social and London Open Drinks to bring you an evening packed full of science and publishing goodness :) Find out who we've lined up as the first set of speakers...

Exciting news at Overleaf! The Stanford University Libraries are sponsoring a free one year trial of Overleaf for all students, staff & faculty. The Stanford University Libraries includes more than 20 individual libraries, each with a world-class collection of books, journals, films, maps, databases, and more.

(click the gif to view a bigger version) Did you know that you can also revert specific changes ('chunks') to the previous version – perhaps to reject some changes made by a co-author, or to reverse a recent erroneous line of code, but accepting other edits?

Overleaf has announced that Springer will integrate 20 Springer journals and the Springer Transfer Desk with the Overleaf online LaTeX and rich text collaborative writing and publishing platform. Martijn Roelandse, Manager Publishing Innovation at Springer, said, “By working with Overleaf, our authors will have access to cutting-edge technology that can simplify their writing, collaboration and publishing processes. We’re very happy to be able to provide this service to our authors.”

May 27, 2015 North Andover, MA, USA – Aries Systems, a solutions provider for scholarly publishers, partners with Overleaf, an online LaTeX and Rich Text collaborative writing and publishing tool. This new agreement between Aries Systems and Overleaf will allow authors to directly submit manuscripts created in the Overleaf platform to the thousands of scholarly journals that use Editorial Manager Ingest Service for online submission and peer review. This new partnership between Aries Systems and Overleaf will simplify the submission process for authors while helping journals capture structured manuscript metadata and correctly compiled LaTeX files. Using the workflow capabilities of Editorial Manager, journals can send the manuscript back to the author to verify submission data, and capture missing information, before proceeding with peer review.

"I was looking for a collaborative tool for writing LaTeX scientific documents, journal papers and other texts.My PhD co-advisor is a professor at Imperial College London and I am based in Barcelona, so exchanging latex files for paper reviews through email was not optimal.Then, we found Overleaf through the website, and since then, we are using it to write different documents in a simple collaborative way, editing the same source file." – Eduardo Prieto-Araujo

Given the longstanding popularity of LaTeX in the computer science community, we were very excited here at Overleaf to see the launch of the new PeerJ Computer Science journal earlier this month. To celebrate, we're delighted to announce that we have once again partnered with PeerJ to provide a special offer for authors publishing to their journals.

In a series of four interviews for Editage Insights, Overleaf co-founder Dr. John Hammersley talks with Donald Samulack, President of US operations for Editage, on the topic of collaborative writing and publishing in the context of science and research.

Having been loudly singing the praises of Overleaf for years now, first as a PhD student and then as an ambassador and lecturer, I'm amazed that there are still a good proportion of LaTeX users who haven't heard of it. I was therefore eager to set up a booth at the Australian and NZ Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference, held in Australia's capital city, Canberra, from February 7-11 2016 to spread the word. This was especially the case since Overleaf had generously agreed to sponsor the Conference, specifically the production of the conference handbook which was compiled in Overleaf.

Overleaf founders John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller will be demoing at The Europas conference in London this week - stop by our table in the networking area to say hi and find out more about Overleaf and the partnerships we're building with institutions and publishers to make collaborative writing and professional typesetting accessible to all.

From the Monday to Thursday evening, 23rd-26th May 2016, the Pint of Science festival will be coming to Number 90 Bar & Restaurant in Hackney Wick in the form of the Creative Reactions event sponsored by Overleaf. Becky Allen, Nuclei, Dreamscapes

#FuturePub 5 is being held in conjunction with this year's Pint of Science festival, and with just two weeks to go to our May 19th event in central London we're delighted to announce an exciting starting line-up of speakers for the evening!

Sam obtained his MEng (hons) from Imperial in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently a research student in the area of energy materials under the supervision of Professor John Kilner of the Materials Department and Professor Nigel Brandon of the Energy Futures Lab. The focus of his work is on the microstructural analysis of SOFC cathodes using X-ray nano-tomography and simulation techniques. In this short interview, Sam Cooper writes about his experiences using writeLaTeX over the past 18 months...